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Remembering George Steiner on his birthday 🎂
đź“· Peter Marlow, 2005
"An intensity of outward attention — interest, curiosity, healthy obsession — was Steiner’s version of God’s grace."
- Lee Siegel
đź“· Peter Marlow, 2005
"An intensity of outward attention — interest, curiosity, healthy obsession — was Steiner’s version of God’s grace."
- Lee Siegel
George Steiner's study by Peter Marlow, 2005
"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely."
George Steiner was born on #ShakespearesBirthday, also #WorldBookDay
"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely."
George Steiner was born on #ShakespearesBirthday, also #WorldBookDay
Peter Marlow's shot of walking sticks & umbrellas at the Cambridge home of George Steiner, 2005
Happy birthday William Shakespeare, born #OTD in 1564! Despite being 456 years old, the Bard is still as relevant as ever because, like us, he too lived through an age of epidemics. #ShakespearesBirthday
Outbreaks of plague hit London repeatedly during Shakespeare’s professional life from between 1592-1609. Whenever more than 30 deaths were reported in a week, the London authorities closed the playhouses. #ShakespearesBirthday
In 1605-6, London was in lockdown, and Shakespeare’s acting company, the King’s Men, had to leave London and take to the road as an itinerant troupe, performing in rural, plague-free towns. #ShakespearesBirthday
#HappyBirthdayShakespeare!
Today we share the story of how the Bodleian received, lost, and regained our very own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (which you can view at #DigitalBodleian)
Ready for some outrageous fortune? The game is afoot!
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discov…+
Today we share the story of how the Bodleian received, lost, and regained our very own copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (which you can view at #DigitalBodleian)
Ready for some outrageous fortune? The game is afoot!
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discov…+
We first got our mitts on this copy in 1623 – seven years after the world became bereft of the be-ruffed bard.
Published by #Shakespeare’s pals and peers, the First Folio preserved treasures such as Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Macbeth - which may otherwise have been lost.
Published by #Shakespeare’s pals and peers, the First Folio preserved treasures such as Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Macbeth - which may otherwise have been lost.
Despite the Bodleian Library not accepting plays at the time (fearing that pamphlets and dramas might bring down the reputation of the library) the importance of the First Folio must have been recognized. It was chained up in Duke Humfrey’s Library, and made available to readers.
